The Young Lions

“Irwin Shaw's monumental best-seller”

Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando), a young German officer, wants to believe the war will give his loyalty a purpose worth the cost. Across the Atlantic, Noah Ackerman (Montgomery Clift) and Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin) are drafted into the American side, each carrying a separate reason to dread it. Edward Dmytryk follows all three through World War II, and what runs under every uniform is how ordinary men get made into soldiers.